[meteorite-list] What material most resist meteorite penatration?

2009-07-21 Thread Meteorites USA
Hmmm... The things you find on the web... http://www.phoric.cn/viewthread.php?tid=390683 Regards, Eric __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] new arizona meteorite/ freebies (AD)

2009-07-21 Thread Martin Altmann
I guess Tom is afraid, that Chicago-Steve will start to spam the list again with his advertisements, because impolite and ruthless as he is, he abused the list in past excessively for his sales promotions. You know Greg, we have here an agreement, that one AD per week and person is is allowed.

Re: [meteorite-list] Regarding list content

2009-07-21 Thread Mr EMan
If you are thinking about responding to the Freebies string please consider this before you make your final decision. I love you all one way or another, Peace. Elton This is for everyone on both sides: This is not per se about the source of the conflict but the way the members deal with it

Re: [meteorite-list] Regarding list content

2009-07-21 Thread Martin Altmann
Well Elton, there I have a different opinion than you, as I want to protect our collectors, especially the new ones, from fraud. I know of four cases, where Chicago-Steve distributed meteorites, which were not that, what he claimed they are. In one case it was even a fake and no meteorite at

[meteorite-list] WHATS WITH THE ATTACKING

2009-07-21 Thread steve arnold
Good morning list.I will be real brief.The person in question about me,is tom randall.Not tom phillips!! Tom P. is as class a guy as you will ever know.I get home from work and see this in my email box.If people,who do not even know me,stop sending this to the list and do it privately,there

Re: [meteorite-list] Regarding list content

2009-07-21 Thread Göran Axelsson
I have a similar experience. I bought a large NWA 869 full slice, half a kilo, on ebay with buy it now. At that time he didn't have a working paypal account so I had to send the money by mail. After a while he started to complaining that I hadn't paid the meteorite. Finally the letter returned

Re: [meteorite-list] What material most resist meteorite penatration?

2009-07-21 Thread Darren Garrison
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:26:56 -0700, you wrote: Hmmm... The things you find on the web... http://www.phoric.cn/viewthread.php?tid=390683 Look like somebody is planning on writing some epicly bad science fiction and is looking for some tech to throw in with the horrible writing. Either that, or

Re: [meteorite-list] NOT AN AD: Being Hacked Sale!!!

2009-07-21 Thread valparint
40 websites and you still feel the need to bother with our humble list? This form of advertising is little more than panhandling. I need money to go meteorite hunting, tiny tim needs an operation... Thanks a lot cottingham. Give me one good reason why we should give a rats ass about your problem

Re: [meteorite-list] What material most resist meteorite penatration?

2009-07-21 Thread Pete Pete
...or he's building his own spaceship in the basement for the X-Prize http://space.xprize.org/ http://space.xprize.org/ From: cyna...@charter.net To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:20:13 -0500 Subject: Re:

[meteorite-list] Goodness gracious

2009-07-21 Thread Darren Garrison
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327174.800-did-great-balls-of-fire-form-the-planets.html Did great balls of fire form the planets? 20 July 2009 by David Shiga ASTEROID-SIZED balls of magma hurtled through our infant solar system, and spray from their many collisions provided much of

[meteorite-list] Basalt-Like Inclusion

2009-07-21 Thread Pete Pete
Dear List, I've dusted off this stone out of my box of NWA Unclassifieds, and I think it's worth sharing. It has an interesting achondritic inclusion making up abut one third of the 97.2 gram mass, which appears similar to a basalt with skeletal ilmenite crystals. The achondritic

Re: [meteorite-list] The NWA 500 complete slice pictures

2009-07-21 Thread Adam Hupe
Dear List, Darren Wrote: I was just looking for the pictures/story about the full slice of NWA 5000 in the megacool sealed contraption, but all links I'm finding are broken. Anybody have a working link? Our answer: We removed references of NWA 5000 from the website due to advice from our

[meteorite-list] Malta Symposium on Hazardous Near Earth Asteroids

2009-07-21 Thread Ron Baalke
http://nea2009.cosmos.ru/ Malta Symposium on Hazardous Near Earth Asteroids Russian Cultural and Scientific Center on Malta October 12-16, 2009 *FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT* *Preface* The Year 2009 according to UNESCO is the Year of Astronomy. So many international scientific conferences, seminars

[meteorite-list] Comet Cause a North American Die-Off

2009-07-21 Thread Greg Stanley
List: Take a look - Greg S. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=did-a-comet-cause-die-off Researchers have found shock-synthesized hexagonal diamonds on one of California's Channel Islands, which they say is the strongest evidence yet that a comet exploded in the atmosphere

Re: [meteorite-list] Strange Picture Of Steve Arnold

2009-07-21 Thread Carl 's
Well, your friend taking pics is wearing black pants with white shoes. I would go with darker color shoes with black pants or lighter pants with white shoes. Even the body language of the E.T. behind him says it all. :-D Carl Mike Hankey asks: ...Look carefully at the third pic. Very

Re: [meteorite-list] Strange Picture Of Steve Arnold

2009-07-21 Thread Mike Hankey
Thanks Carl. I will pass on the fashion advice to Bob (he's the producer of steve's show and isn't usually on camera ;0) On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Carl 'scarloselgua...@hotmail.com wrote: Well, your friend taking pics is wearing black pants with white shoes. I would go with darker

[meteorite-list] Jupiter has been whacked again

2009-07-21 Thread Kevin Forbes
It appears than Jupiter has been hit again by something very big. I heard about it yesterday morning, but I found only old shoemaker levy stuff, different story now. http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090720-jupiter-new-impact.html

[meteorite-list] Jupiter Adds a Feature

2009-07-21 Thread Ron Baalke
W. M. Keck Observatory 65-1120 Mamalahoa Hwy. Kamuela, Hawai'i July 20, 2009 Jupiter Adds a Feature Mauna Kea, Hawai'i -- Jupiter's got a brand new mark. Something slammed into the gas giant leaving a dark bruise in the planet's atmosphere, scientists at Keck Observatory confirmed early on

Re: [meteorite-list] Possible Impact Event on Jupiter?

2009-07-21 Thread Mark Abbott
Has anyone heard an estimate for the size of the impactor yet. If I recall correctly, for an object reaching Earth's surface with cosmic velocity, the rule of thumb is that the crater diameter is 50 times the impactors diameter. I am guessing that factor for Jupiter's cloud layer is going to

Re: [meteorite-list] Possible Impact Event on Jupiter?

2009-07-21 Thread Mr EMan
Right Mark, that holds for ground impacts. The apparent diameter looks roughly 3-5 earth diameters and I don't think we are missing a major planet. I presume someone will compare this to the known sizes of Shoemaker/Levy-9 to get an estimate since that it the only frame of reference we have

Re: [meteorite-list] Possible Impact Event on Jupiter?

2009-07-21 Thread lebofsky
Hi Mark: For Earth, 20 times (give or take), not 50. This new spot, from what I can tell, looks to be on the small end of the SL9 impactors, so we are talking about under a kilometer in diameter, I would guess. Also, it is likely that this event came in at a higher velocity than SL9 since they

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Limericks

2009-07-21 Thread Galactic Stone Ironworks
The once was a man from Peekskill, who chased every bolide with zeal He'd only find lunaites, and scoffed at mere chondrites So we put a bug on his automobile! ;) -- . Michael Gilmer (Florida, USA) Member of the Meteoritical

[meteorite-list] AD: Meteorite Men Collectibles

2009-07-21 Thread MeteorHntr
Hey List, Well, it was interesting to see how the Meteorite Men collectible slabs went on Ebay this past week. I was genuinely surprised to see the complete set of 18 go actually go for more than the 18 individuals did. I thought it would have been the other way around. Usually volume

[meteorite-list] AD - Another batch done!

2009-07-21 Thread Impactika
Hello everybody, Yes, another batch posted, and a big one, some 60 pieces. And a very ecclectic bunch it is. Some with names you all know, like Mighei, Ivuna, Divnoe, Renazzo, Vigarano. And others less famous but no less interesting like Albion, Coldwater, Heredia, Clark County) And of